The Salem Trayned Band will demonstrate pike drill and offer a pike-drill workshop at Smith College’s ConBust ’15, on Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 2:00 pm on Seelye Lawn. In addition, we’ll appear as our nineteenth-century selves at 6:00 pm, and we have members involved in programming throughout the day, including the Writing Believable Fight Scenes panel at 1:00 pm. We hope to see you there!

The Salem Trayned Band will demonstrate c. 1630 English pike drill and seventeenth-century camp life at the Strawbery Banke Museum’s An American Celebration on Friday 4 July 2014 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Then we’ll see the fireworks of dozens of towns on our way home.

The Salem Trayned Band will march in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts’ June Day parade on Monday 2 June 2014, in downtown Boston. This annual event, held on the first Monday in June, recreates the Ancient and Honorables’ drumhead election. It also closes Tremont Street, and other central streets, in the middle of a work day. And they fire artillery salutes on Boston Common. The parade steps off at noon. As a special treat, the Honourable Artillery Company of London, the second-oldest chartered military organization in the world (after the Pontifical Swiss Guard) will be visiting for the parade. It’s an event not to be missed.

The Salem Trayned Band will do Henry Hexham’s early-seventeenth-century pike drill at Minuteman National Historical Park in Lexington, Massachusetts on Armed Forces Day, Saturday 17 May 2014. The event, Muskets, Pikes, Bayonets and Beyond, will take place at the park’s North Bridge Visitor Center from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm. We go on at 11:00. We’ll also appear as our nineteenth-century alter egos later in the day. National Guard units and a variety of eighteenth-century re-enactors will be there as well. Come see it!

The Salem Trayned Band will demonstrate pike drill at Smith College’s ConBust ’14, on Saturday, March 29, 2014 at 12:00 noon on Seelye Lawn. In addition, we’ll appear as our nineteenth-century selves at 2:00 pm, and we have members involved in programming at 10:00 am (Tribute to Tactical Tutors and Training), 5:00 pm (So You Think You Can Fight?), and 7:00 pm (Huzzah for Hollywood). We hope to see you there!

The Salem Trayned Band will demonstrate pike drill at Arisia ’14, on Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 10:00 am, in Grand Ballroom A. And on Saturday we’ll have appeared as our nineteenth-century alter egos. Check our schedule on The Salem Zouaves’ site, and on Arisia’s on-line schedule.